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“Your speech will tell what is in your heart.

“If the heart is sick, the forbidden becomes attractive and obedience of Allah becomes something you look at with contempt.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“The believer does not curse.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Sulaiman bin Abdul Malik heard the sound of thunder and was bothered by it, so `Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz said: O leader of the believers, this is the sound of His mercy, what [would you do] about the sound of His punishment?

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz

“The first Sunnah that the Muslims abandoned was coming early to Jumu'ah.

Imam az-Zarkashi

“Who says nothing is impossible. I’ve seen many people doing nothing for years.

Waleed Basyouni

“Some of the Salaf (righteous predecessors) said: The bounties of Allah have come to us in numbers we can't count, even though we disobey [Allah] often, and we don't know which one to thank Allah for: the beautiful things He sends, or the ugly things [that we do] that He hides.

Anonymous Author

“I borrowed a pen in Ash-Sham [The Levant]. When I came back to Marwu [Merv in Turkmenistan] I saw that I still had it, so I went back to return it.

Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

“Sins are wounds, and maybe a wound that could lead to death, and a servant is not afflicted with a punishment greater than a hard hard, and the farthest hearts from Allah are hard hearts.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“I ask Allah for steadfastness on the deen until death (those who say our Lord is Allah and then are steadfast); those who say "Our Lord is Allah" are many, but those who are steadfast are few.

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

“The human soul will not leave the dunya except with three regrets: that he didn't satiate himself with enjoyment of what he had gathered (of wealth), that he didn't receive the things he hoped for, and that he didn't prepare well for what he has come upon [i.e. the Hereafter].

al-Hasan al-Basri

“Abdullah ibn Masud used to say: When we missed a brother we would go to him, if he was ill we would visit him to console him, if he was busy we would help him in his work, and if he was otherwise it would just be a visit.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“Whoever smiles at his brother's committing of a sin has betrayed him.

Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad (Al-Fozail ibn Iyaz)

“My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“Of the signs of the wretchedness and misery of the servant [of Allah]:
That whenever his knowledge increases, his arrogance and pride increase, and whenever his [good] deeds increase, his boastfulness and self-love increase, and whenever his age increases, his aggressiveness and desperation increase, and whenever his wealth increases, his stinginess and miserliness increase, and whenever his lot and prestige increases, his distance from people and his looking down on them and disregarding them increases.

Waleed Basyouni

“Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy upon him) was asked: Which one is better for the servant [of Allah], istighfar [seeking Allah's forgiveness in prayer] or tasbeeh [glorifying Allah in prayer]? He answered: If a dress is clean, then incense and rose water are better, and if it is dirty then soap and water is better. tasbeeh is the incense of the pure ones, and istighfar is the soap of the sinners.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“What the servant [of Allah] dislikes is better for him than what he likes, because what he dislikes motivates him to make du`a, while what he likes distracts him [from worshiping Allah].

Sufyan bin 'Uyainah

“By the amount that you worry about dunya [worldly life], the concern for akhirah [the Hereafter] will leave your heart, and by the amount that you worry about akhirah, the concern for dunya will leave your heart.

Malik ibn Dinar

“I visited Singapore and saw stores with Arabic names, belonging to the Arab merchants who came there for trade and who were first to spread Islam, and wondered what our merchants today spread around the world.

Waleed Basyouni

“Ibn Masud was asked: How did you [early Muslims] greet Ramadan? He said: None of us used to dare to greet the hilal [crescent moon, the sign of the beginning of the month of Ramadan] of Ramadan with an atom of grudge in his heart for his Muslim brother.

Abdullah ibn Masud

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